Town (Honour's) Mill, Edenbridge Medway watermills (upper tributaries)
the mill in 2008
in 1291 water powered pump @ work here, draining marshland between lingfield , edenbridge. present corn mill building dates nineteenth century, incorporates parts of older structure. cast iron low breastshot waterwheel drove 3 pairs of stones. mill last ground water sometime before first world war, , working electricity 1970s. waterwheel used work ancillary machinery until 1968, when cast iron pit wheel broken in floods of year.
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